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MySQL for Updating WordPress Post URLs

ereckers — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:36:02 +0000

Sometimes you’ll need to update post and page urls when going from a development environment to production, or more simply when going from one domain to the next. If you have many (10s to 100s), and you will have that if the WP snapshots have been run, then you’ll want to update them all easily. You can do this with MySQL:

UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid,’dev.site.com’,'www.site.com’);
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,’dev.site.com’,'www.site.com’);
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_value,’dev.site.com’,'www.site.com’);

That’s it. You can update your WordPress post and page url values with just a little html.

MySQL Config Examples

ereckers — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:40:48 +0000

I recently was on the search for a few examples of active MySQL configuration files (my.cnf). It’s always nice to see someone else’s production version of a configuration file and during this search I realized that not a lot of examples of MySQL config files were to be found on the internet.

The first place to start is MySQL’s examle config files. You can find this in mysql’s doc share, ie:

/usr/share/doc/mysql-server-5.*.*/

There are 5 example MySQL configuration files provided with most systems:

my-small.cnf
my-medium.cnf
my-large.cnf
my-huge.cnf
my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf

You can take a look at the example MySQL config files above to get an idea of how these settings can be handled.

Here are a couple links to pages with MySQL config file examples:

Here’s a link worth reading:

http://www.brennan.id.au/17-MySQL_Server.html

That’s it for now. This is a resource page/blog post pointing to example MySQL configuration files.

List of Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE)

ereckers — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:29:48 +0000

Below is a list of Comparison Shopping Engines (CSEs) which we had compiled during previous research. The definition of a Comparison Shopping Engine from Internet.Com’s Webopedia:

Shopping search engines that compare the prices on searched-for products at various online stores. While most comparison-shopping engines do not offer the merchandise themselves, some may earn commissions when users follow the links in the search results and make a purchase from the online vendor.

Here is our list:

That’s our list of Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE). We’ll come back and add expansionary notes to these as we go along, but in the meantime the list may be of help to someone.

Essential WordPress Plugins

ereckers — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:49:08 +0000

This post is a running tab of what we at Kliky.Com consider essential WordPress Plugins. These WordPress Plugins are essential in that they should be included in every new WordPress installation we spin up. Below is our ever-updated list of plugins which should be included in every launch:

All in One SEO Pack
This plugin enables certain modifications to your WordPress blog to achieve Search Engine Optimization. For example, you can customize your post title, post description and post tags for individual post. Furthermore, this plugin also has features such as auto generates Canonical URLS for your entire WordPress site and select index/noindex for various archives pages.
Google XML Sitemaps Generator
This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. A sitemap will help search engine spiders to crawl your content. The generated sitemap also supported by other search engine such as Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com.

That’s it. That is our list of essential WordPress plugins. These plugins should be a part of every new launch of a WordPress website.

Gmail Phishing Attack – A Gift of Spam From Gmail

ereckers — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:02:59 +0000

At 5:46AM the morning of May 19, 2010 I received an email from a client’s Gmail address (the address used in from/senders). The contents of the email tipped me off that it was probably the result of an earlier Gmail phishing attack (and that my client was not in fact shopping at snnsn.com).

I did a little research and did note that Google was the victim of at least 2 well publicized phishing attacks in 2009:

One in October:

Google confirms Gmail phishing attack

And another Phishing attack earlier in the year in February:

Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage

Below is the subject and body of the email:

Subject: A gift!!!

My friend sent me a digital camera a few days ago,which he bought at a online shop,and I am using the camera right now,I find it is original and really has superior quality,and the price is absolutely competitive in the market,he told me the company website, I find they have a full range of products,and there are a great many members there,You can spare some time to log on their web to have a check,there must be something that interests you!

One interesting aspect of this email from the Gmail phishing attack was that they chunked off a couple of my client’s contacts covering first names starting with only 2 letters (in this case d through e). Below was my immediate reply to my client in response to this spam email:

At the moment I can’t find much more than this initial report (for this particular spam mail). If this looks like emails from your gmail account contacts then you’re account has been compromised (there’s been a few reports of phishing attacks on Gmail from 2009). You’ll want to change your password with one that’s at least 8 characters, a combination of letters and numbers, at least one uppercase and a special character.

After a bit more research I found a nice post in the Google support forums aptly named, “Help, spam has been sent to all of my contacts from my gmail account! How do I report this?”.

The most popular answer contained the following important tips:

If your account has been compromised/hacked/stolen you will need to check and fix at least all of the following settings.

But first you need to check the bottom of the Inbox and make sure your account is not open at any other locations. If it shows additional locations, open the Details window and “Sign out all other sessions”.

Account Security:
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Google Account Settings -> Change Password [pick a new secure password]
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Google Account Settings -> Change Password Recovery Options [verify secret question, SMS and recovery e-mail address]

Potential Spam:
Settings -> General -> Signature [make sure nothing as been added]
Settings -> General -> Vacation Responder [make sure it's disabled and empty]

E-mail Theft
Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Send Mail As [make sure it is using your correct e-mail address]
Settings -> Filters [no filters that forward or delete e-mail]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Forwarding [disabled or correct address]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> POP Download [disabled]
Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> IMAP Access [disabled]

In that same post there are an additional number of links referencing valuable information on how to harden your Google Gmail account and hopefully prevent or at least mitigate any future damage from these Gmail Phishing attacks.

How to View Visits Hourly in Google Analytics

ereckers — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:02:09 +0000

There are many out there who believe Google Analytics does not provide hourly reporting in their traffic reports. The main question is if Google Analytics provides hourly statistics or traffic reports broken down by hour for a particular day.

With the help of an existing post from Get Satisfaction titled, “In Google Analytics is there any way to view traffic by time-of-day?“, I can show a Google Analytics view that provides an hourly report for your visits by the day.

The post I referenced provides a screen shot of the Analytics screen under Visitor Trending and Time On Site in which there is a link set titled View By: Daily | Hourly. This is no longer in the Google Analytics UI as mentioned by a commenter in that same post.

The best method to view visitors by hour with Google Analytics is to do the following:

=> select Visitors
=> select Vistor Trending
=> select Visits
=> select Clock/Hourly icon (to the right under the date selection option)

Here is a screen-shot showing visits broken down by hour for May 14:

If your report covers multiple days the hourly report will show the total amount of visitors per day for the date range. If the date range covers only one day the report will show visitors per hour for that particular day.

That’s it. That is how you can view visits and traffic by hour using Google Analytics.

11 Interesting Links I Found This Week

ereckers — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:23:26 +0000

Here’s a list of 11 interesting links I found browsing the Web this week. I send them to myself over multiple formats throughout the week and towards the end of each (April 14th) try and record them in these blog posts.

Take a look below and I hope you find them as interesting as I did:

Google Adds App Store for Analytics

Define Competitors: Step 4 of the 8-Step SEO Strategy

11 Excellent Solutions for Making Your Website Mobile Friendly

zRSSFeed – RSS Feeds Reader for jQuery

Sponsored Tweets – Twitter Advertising

WordPress API

GroupTweet – Turns Twitter Into a Communications Hub

9 Useful PHP Functions and Features You Need to Know | Nettuts+

5 Free Services for Pre-Scheduling Your Twitter Updates

16 Different Clones You Can Build with Drupal

CSS3 Gradient Buttons

That’s my list of 11 interesting links I found on the internet this week.

Nokia N8 Prototype Pictures

ereckers — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:39:46 +0000

Engadget snapped a few photos and was able to handle a prototype of Nokia’s N8 in London recently, which will be hitting shelves Q3 of this year loaded with Symbian 3. Below is a photo of the Nokia N8 as well as a few observations from Engadget:

The anodized aluminum shell feels very well built and is remarkably light. So much so that our first instinct was to ask whether the battery was inside or this was just a hollow mockup. We’d compare it to the feeling of picking up the Zune HD for the first time, it’s a strikingly light device. Plopping it into our pocket also felt extremely natural, which might be attributable to the particular curvature of the N8’s sides.

Please be sure to read the full post at Engadget for the the Nokia N8 Hands-On.

Favitt – Search Multiple Search Engines From One Page

ereckers — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:15:28 +0000

Sometimes I don’t even know why these guys bother.

Faviit lets you perform the same search on multiple search engines from a single page, thus saving you from the frustration of opening multiple browser tabs and typing the same words again and again.

You can check it out by going to Favitt.

A Great Showcase of Web Design Incorporating Photos

ereckers — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:55:17 +0000

The Six Revisions site always seems to come up with intelligent posts which inspire. If you haven’t already, you should follow their tweets. The just put up a post called, “Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design” and I’d have to say it’s a great collection. I read a lot of these “lists” each day for inspiration and most of the time, it’s recycled garbage, but I’d have to say this post by Six Revisions showing the usage of photography as the basis of your Web site design is great.

Using photos as a design element and central piece in a web design is a great way to get a point across to the viewers or to just add more depth into the design. We are going to look at some examples of two popular ways of using photos in a web layout: using a large photo as your background and using a photo as the central focus in the header.

You can read their post here:

http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/using-photos-web-design/